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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.- Jack Vance

These are just the tip of the iceberg,because I read and read and read.I read everything.- Jack Vance

I don't read other science fiction.I don't read any at all.- Jack Vance

I'd never been published when I was young.- Jack Vance

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hardwriting blind on computers.The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow,I'm so terribly slow using it.- Jack Vance

But, for instance, when I was awfully young,I read all the Oz books.They were an enormous influence on me.- Jack Vance

I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflersand go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.- Jack Vance

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.- Jack Vance

Sometimes some of these little side excursions areuseful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.- Jack Vance

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.- Jack Vance

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realizedI have far too much material for the book.- Jack Vance

I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.- Jack Vance

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story.He's supposed to be completely immersed,submerged in the environment.- Jack Vance

I do read books.I suppose it's more or less the same thing,but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual.I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.- Jack Vance

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office,you're a creature in a small cell under somebody'ssupervision and surveillance.- Jack Vance

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.- Jack Vance

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributesto the background from which I write.- Jack Vance

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.- Jack Vance

I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars,which I went to.- Jack Vance

This flattery has been rather slow in coming.I think all of sudden late in life now I'm gettingsome credit for what I've done.Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.- Jack Vance

The story was such that I couldn't make a gracefulending and then make a graceful new beginning.I could have, but I didn't want to.So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story.This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff.I'm pleased with it anyway.- Jack Vance

Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money,I don't know what I'd do with it.I don't travel anymore.I don't need anything, don't want anything.I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.- Jack Vance

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actuallywrote something that is utterly useless.You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit.So I just throw it away.I've done that countless times.- Jack Vance

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.- Mother Teresa

Seek first to understand,then to be understood.- Stephen Covey

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are what we repeatedly do.Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)

If you want to make peace with your enemy,you have to work with your enemy.Then he becomes your partner.- Nelson Mandela

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassionand a genuine desire to serve others.- Rod Stryker

I can't go back to yesterday -because I was a different person then.- Lewis Carroll

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,and then proceed to greater.- Epictetus

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,and then leap in the dark to our success.- Henry David Thoreau

If we could first know where we are,and whither we are tending,we could then better judge what to do,and how to do it.- Abraham Lincoln

Everything is okay in the end.If it's not okay, then it's not the end.- Anonymous

When you are offended at any man's fault,turn to yourself and study your own failings.Then you will forget your anger.- Epictetus

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...only then will you learn the game.- Winston Churchill

Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Always listen to the experts.They'll tell you what can't be done and why.Then do it.- Robert Heinlein

Everyone should carefully observewhich way his heart draws him,and then choose that way with all his strength.- Hasidic Proverb

Life is change. Without change, there is no life.Why then do we so fight against change?- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I think that somehow, we learn who we really areand then live with that decision.- Eleanor Roosevelt

When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar,and the lightnings blaze around usit is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.- Luther Martin

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.- Rumi

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.- Abraham Lincoln

Farewell My FriendIt was beautiful as long as it lastedThe journey of my life.I have no regrets whatsoeversave the pain I'll leave behind.Those dear hearts who love and care...And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...The strong arms that held me upWhen my own strength let me down.At every turning of my lifeI came across good friends,Friends who stood by me,Even when the time raced me by.Farewell, farewell my friendsI smile and bid you goodbye.No, shed no tears for I need them notAll I need is your smile.If you feel sad do think of mefor that's what I'll likewhen you live in the heartsof those you love, remember thenyou never die.- Gitanjali Ghei

It is better to conquer yourselfthan to win a thousand battles.Then the victory is yours.It cannot be taken from you,not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.- The Buddha

Don't ask yourself what the world needs;ask yourself what makes you come alive.And then go and do that.Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.- Howard Thurman

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.- Epictetus

You have to learn the rules of the game.And then you have to play better than anyone else.- Albert Einstein

To manage your mind,know that there is nothing,and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.- Lao Tzu

Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;for that's the stuff life is made of.- Benjamin Franklin

Today, I will do my best...and then relax in the knowingthat I have done all I could.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;people create distinctions out of their own mindsand then believe them to be true.- The Buddha

If you wish to see the truth,then hold no opinion for or against.- Osho

Start by doing what's necessary;then do what's possible;and suddenly you are doing the impossible.- St. Francis of Assisi

Look at everything as though you were seeing iteither for the first or last time.Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.- Betty Smith

First say to yourself what you would be;then do what you have to do.- Epictetus

I wrap the potential for bitterness,resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgivenessand just set it down.Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."- Lewis Carroll